Comments on: Trapped In Car, Woman Drowns As Husband Watches

By: GGooDeiMC

GGooDeiMC — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 17:47:18 +0000

Yeah. This is weird because someone should have jumped in the water and helped the woman. Why was the coastguard* just standing there doing anything.

This woman’s life is gone because of some bullshit.

By: Maggot

Maggot — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 05:27:56 +0000

@Sayit Asis

I fully agree with your observation of kai’s behaviour in this site. After a while, he is quite predictable.

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By: jayman

jayman — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 03:59:05 +0000

Sorry for the double post.

“They feared taht teh approach of their boat would break the water surface and cause the floating car to sink,” the official said.

Maybe they were waiting for the woman to exit the vehicle, when it would be simpler to get her out of the water. Also, saying the police were in contact with water rescue makes it seem like they were waiting for a different crew who could safely enter the water to extract her, since she was ultimately unable (or as I believe, unwilling) to escape on her own.

By: jayman

jayman — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 03:52:02 +0000

First off, Xin Yang wasn’t there with a husband and child. Her only companion was the one cutting her apart. And we have no idea what the witnesses did, other than two of them called 911. Every article I’ve seen is either the AP wire report or based off of it, and not one of them describes the actual murder. They say there was no argument preceding it and that the killer was holding her head when police arrived (less than 2 minutes after being called).

Not one article described the witnesses or their actions. No one knows whether they were male or female, or if they even would have been physically able to stop the attacker. Since it occured in the cafe in her dormitory building, it’s at least possible it was only women.

And we can only assume that they made no moves to confront him, since there is no mention of heroics, but a lack of testimony means we are unable to know. There is a two minute gap in the continuity, which perhaps will be addressed if the case makes it to trial.

How is helping someone out of the water anywhere near the same as confronting an armed man anyway? Stretching to try to make connections where none exist weakens the argument, which had already been strongly agreed upon, that there are many factors that must contribute to allow something like this to happen.

By: too yellow

too yellow — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 23:45:31 +0000

@Nathan C
“If this happen in the US, you will see at least a dozen people diving into the river to save that woman… ”

Well, Seven people just watched as a girl’s head was chopped off in Virginal Tech. The whole event supposed to have lasted a minute before police could arrive. Bystander effect and shock of “this isn’t happening” is universal and much stronger than you think.

By: washingtondude

washingtondude — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 14:55:49 +0000

Shanghai daily from 2or3 days ago:
“Actually, the two maritime officers on that boat were in close contact with the water rescue force during the incident,” said a senior offictial with the Shanghai Maritime Safety Administration. “They feared taht teh approach of their boat would break the water surface and cause the floating car to sink,” the official said.

By: Kai

Kai — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 12:57:17 +0000

LoL, are you serious? Do you have a link you could share with us?

If that was seriously the “professionals’” excuse, that’s a new level of incompetency. Did they try explaining what they were hoping for by not breaking the “water surface”? Were they hoping to avoid her sinking sooner because they were waiting for help or was it purely just to prolong her last remaining moments of terror?

By: izme

izme — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 11:14:43 +0000

i just read in the newspaper that the official excuse for the 2 coast patrol officers that didnt do shit to saver her is the following…

“they were afraid to break the water surface with their boat which would have caused the car to sink immediately.”

there you go inventors of the great 4, read about “buoyancy”.
thats a car, not a bug.